WATCH: David Cameron's Easter message

Prime Minister David Cameron has given
an Easter message calling for British people to defeat
Islamic terrorism by standing up for "Christian values." Speaking
in a video that has been published to
social media, Cameron says these values should give British
people the confidence to say "we are a Christian country and we
are proud of it."

Cameron also said that we must stand up for Christians who are
being persecuted in other countries.

It's not that usual for British Prime Ministers to give overtly
pro-Christian speeches and Cameron's message will be appreciated
by small c conservative Christians who often feel that religious
festivals such as Christmas and Easter are
beginning to lose their religious significance.

Here is what Cameron said, the added emphasis is ours

The message of Easter is a message of hope for millions of
Christians in our country and all around the world. We see that
hope every day in the many faith-inspired projects that help the
homeless, that get people into work, that help keep families
together and offer loving homes to children who need them. We see
it in the compassion of church leaders and volunteers who visit
our hospitals, care homes and hospices – and who comfort the
bereaved. And we see that hope in the aid workers and volunteers
who so often risk their own lives to save the lives of others in
war-torn regions across the world.

And at the heart of all these acts of kindness and
courage is a set of values and beliefs that have helped to make
our country what it is today. Values of responsibility,
hard work, charity, compassion and pride in working for the
common good and honouring the social obligations we have to one
another, to our families and our communities.

These are values we treasure.

They are Christian values and they should give us the
confidence to say yes, we are a Christian country and we are
proud of it. But they are also values that speak to
everyone in Britain – to people of every faith and none. And we
must all stand together and defend them. When we see Christians
today in 2016 being persecuted for their beliefs in other parts
of the world – we must speak out and stand with those who bravely
practice their faith. And when terrorists try to destroy
our way of life as they have tried to do again so despicably in
Brussels this week – we must stand together and show that we will
never be cowed by terror.

And when terrorists try to destroy our way of life as they have
tried to do again so despicably in Brussels this week – we must
stand together and show that we will never be cowed by terror.

We must show that in this struggle of our generation we
will defeat the pernicious ideology that is the root cause of
this terrorism by standing up proudly for our values and our way
of life. So this Easter as we pray for the friends and
families of all those who lost loved ones in Brussels let us also
draw hope and inspiration from the values we share and from all
those who – inspired by those values – seek to help others in our
country and around the world.